Half Slave, Half Free
Posted in Welfare State on Apr 19th, 2007
Thirty percent of Gross Domestic Product will be extracted as tribute by Federal, state and local governments this year. This burden merely scratches the surface of the full-costs associated with administering American government. Opponents of ratification of the U.S. Constitution by the Pennsylvania Convention in 1787 wrote that, “By virtue of their power of taxation, […]